Retail employees who work for Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, Toys R Us, Kmart, Tanger Outlets, Gap, Meijer and a many more can forget having a relaxing Thanksgiving Dinner this year. I think it's a horrible business decision and reflects poorly on our national values. Since when is grabbing the first sales more important than family time at Thanksgiving?

Retail employees who work for Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, Toys R Us, Kmart, Tanger Outlets, Gap, Meijer and a many more can forget having a relaxing Thanksgiving Dinner this year. I think it's a horrible business decision and reflects poorly on our national values. Since when is grabbing the first sales more important than family time at Thanksgiving?

JCFantasy23It's amazing what we take for grantedStaff MemberSupervisorSupporterAngels Team

Depends where you work. A lot of companies now have only started giving holiday pay if you work a certain time period that day, everyone else gets regular pay.

Honestly some people hate working holidays and some don't really care. My best friend, for instance, works holidays and they just celebrate the other times and it doesn't bother her. Now me ? It would really bother to work holidays.

It's good stores are open on Thanksgiving in a way, as someone always realized they forgot something and have to go for a quick stop! We do this every year!

Well, years ago, the SIMPSONS made a Christmas special in which Crusty says "Happy Holidays NOW in the Spirit of the season, START SPENDING"
You know a problem has reached epic proportions when the Simpsons poke fun at it.

I am already sick of the Christmas SHopping/Black Friday ads, much as I was sick of the election ads a month ago. . I invoke the freedom to spend the holidays as I choose...not as someone else might
Thanksgiving is not a shopping day for me. If others choose to do so, so be it. That is their right and their choice.

What bothers more about it is the promotion of greed by the retailers and the blind and desperate acceptance of it by the consumers. We all know how greed leads to addictions, how selfishness leads to unhappiness.

Truth in Advertising then, if there were such a thing, would be something like this:

THIS THURSDAY THANKSGIVING DAY PUT WAY YOUR TURKEY AND COME OUT TO OUR STORE ! TV's from $99 WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. VIDEO GAMES FROM $15 COME OUT AND TRY TO GIVE YOUR LIFE MEANING BY BUYING THINGS TO TAKE HOME! GET HERE EARLY TO GET MORE THINGS THAN ANYONE ELSE! HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS!!!!! AND DON'T FOR: CHRISTMAS IS A MONTH AWAY ! MAKE IT ALL ABOUT MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AND PRESENTS AND FLUFF!!!! BUY DECORATIONS FOR YOUR YARD, HALF PRCE THURSDAY ONLY!!!! FORGET THE LOVE, THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS, THE SELFLESS ACTS OF KINDNESS AND CHARITY EMBODIED BY JESUS AND OTHERS!!!!! MAKE THIS YOULE ALL ABOUT MATERIALISM !! LIVE A SHALLOW LIFE AND GAIN PLEASURE FROM MATERIAL THINGS! AND IF THOSE THINGS BREAK, DO NOT WORRY!!!! WE WILL BE OPEN EVEN EARLIER NEXT THANKSGIVING!!!!

Don't know about the rest of you, but that is not how I choose to live my life.

The greedmas season is upon us. Everything is fair in love and war, and greedmas is war. They need to grab every greedmas dollar they can, with unemployment so high,if someone complains, they cn be replaced.
Merry Greedmas to all, and to all a good night.